Pardon this brief intermission. Life has become crazy! As you may remember from this post, we had purchased a 2004 Keystone Outback and had just signed the papers to sell our house. We were moving fulltime into Babette (that’s her name) and were going to be hitting the road. Well, that didn’t last long. About…

Let’s face it, living comfortably can be expensive. Do you ever find yourself watching videos uploaded by minimalists on YouTube and thinking “How on Earth do they live with so little? Surely it’s all for show and they have a 3000 sq ft house just down the road.” While yeah, maybe some of them do,…

Home Behind Us Packing and leaving. Isn’t that the dream? I talk about how to pack for travel all the time, don’t I? This is different though. This is a big pack-up. This is our entire house going into boxes and storage containers, filling up a 10X10 space in the cold of northern Illinois. This…